Dripping-pan for ice-boxes.



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DRIPPING PAN FOR 1013 BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27, 1909.

931,75 1 Patented Aug. 24. 1909.

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M. GLASSBERG.

DRIPPING PAN FOB. ICE BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 27, 1909.

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MORITZ GLASSBEBG, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

DRIPPING-PAN FOR ICE-BOXES.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRrrz GLASSBERG, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dripping- Pans for Ice-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to drip pans for ice boxes, and has for its especial object to provide therefor an alarm device to indicate when the water in the drip pan has reached a predetermined height.

To the above ends, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

deferring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in front elevation showing the lower portion of an ice box and a drip pan; Fig. 2 is a plan View of the drip pan; Fig. 3 is a detailed View on an enlarged scale, in vertical section, taken on the line m c of Fig. 2; Fig. 4: is a detailed View on an enlarged scale, in vertical section, taken on line m 00* of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a detailed View on an enlarged scale, in Vertical section, taken on the line a m of Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing a diflerent alarm device; and Fig. 7 is a plan View of the drip pan shown in Fig. 6.

The numeral 1 indicates the lower portion of an ice box provided with the customary water discharge spout 2 leading from the ice chamber and arranged to discharge into a drip pan 3. A float d, having an open top, is secured by hinges 5 to the front and upper edge of the drip pan 3. To limit the up ward movement of the float at, a pair of downwardly projecting studs 6 are secured one to each end of the float 4i and work through perforations in an out-turned flange 3 of the pan 3. The lower ends of the studs (5 are screwed-threaded and provided with nuts 7, which nuts are adapted to engage the under side of the out-turned flange 3 of the drip pan 3 to limit the upward movement of the float 4:. As is evident, by adjusting the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 27, 1909.

Patented A11 24., 1909.

Serial No. 4%, 218.

nut T on the stud 6, the upward movement of the float i may be varied at will.

A spring actuated bell S of the ordinary or any desired construction is secured to the front of the drip pan 3 and the upwardly spring pressed bell actuating plunger 9 of the hell 8 engages an upwardly and outwardly projecting finger 10 rigidly secured to the intermediate portion of the float l. The free end of the finger 10 and plunger 9 are covered and protected by a metal strip 11 secured to the flange 3 of the drip pan 3. As is evident, when the water in the drip pan 3 rises high enough to operate the float a, the finger 10 presses the plunger 9 downward, thereby actuating the bell S to give an alarm when the water in the drip pan 3 has reached a predetermined height so that the pan may be emptied before the water runs over the pan and onto the floor.

An overflow pipe 12 is secured to and opened into the upper right hand corner of the drip pan 3. A valve 13, hinged to the outer edge of the flange 3 of the drip pan 3, above the overflow pipe 12, normally closes the outer end of said overflow pipe. The valve 13 is held in either its open or closed position by a spring lt secured to the flange 3 of the drip pan 3. Ordinarily, the overflow pipe 12 will be closed by the valve 13, but when it is necessary to leave the drip pan 3 an unusually long time without emptying the same, the valve 13 is opened, as shown in Fig. i, and a dish or an, not shown, is placed on the floor in a position to receive the overflow from pipe 12.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, except, in place of the spring actuated bell 8, an electric bell and push button of the standard construction are used. The numeral let in dicates the push button secured to the under side of the ice box 1 in position to be engaged by the free upper edge of the float 4 when the same is lifted by the water in the drip pan 3. The electric bell and battery are indicated by the numeral 15 and the wiring from the push button to the bell and battery is indicated by the numeral 16. It may be here stated that in place of the electric bell, a buzzer may be used.

In actual practice, the above described invention has been found highly eflicient for the purposes had in View.

What I claim is: for limiting the upward swinging move- The comblnatlon wlth a drlp pan and an ment of sald float wlth respect to sald drlp open float hinged thereto. for upward swingpan, substantlally as descrlbed.

111g movement, said float having laterally In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 5 p1'o ect1ng flanges for engagement Wlth the 111 presence of two wltnesses.

upper edge of sa1d dr1p pan, for support- M RIT7 LA mg sald float- 111 an moperatlve posltlon, of O J G SSB an alarm devlce arranged to be actuated by Wltnessesz sald float when the Water 1n the pan has ALICE V. SwANsoN,

l0 risen to a predetermined height, and means HARRY D. I{ILGORE1 

